Reinforcement of the material resources

 
The negotiation with the representatives of the local distributors of the leading world companies for the advanced separation instruments and mass spectrometry begun during February 2009 and it was finally finished during December 2009. During this exhaustive process, it has been finally achieved to successfully negotiate the procurement of two outstanding analytical systems produced by Thermo Fisher Scientific:
 
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 UHPLC Accela - TSQ Vantage™ MS/MS for the targeted analysis of the organic contaminants in food and the environment, and
 
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 UHPLC Accela – Exactive™ with Orbitrap technology that allows the screening of unknowns, very important aspect in the food safety analysis, particularly the analysis of emerging pollutants.
 
These systems, particularly their mass spectrometers have unique features that separated them from the similar instruments available at WBC region. Namely, triple quadrupole TSQ Vantage has resolution that is continuously adjustable to better than 0.1 Da peak width across the entire mass range. Combined with a robust new ion source, second generation (G2) ion optics and hyperbolic quadrupoles, the Thermo Scientific TSQ Vantage™ delivers the highest sensitivity with the lowest chemical noise. Exactive™ represents a high resolution mass spectrometer with patented Orbitrap technology which always provides high resolution and accurate masses in all modes of operation. It provides ultra high resolution of 100,000. Fully compatible with U-HPLC, Exactive™ is ideal for solving the most demanding analytical challenges, including complex samples containing pesticides, metabolites or other target compounds.
 
UHPLC Accela - TSQ Vantage™ MS/MS in the CEFSER Lab for Mass Spectrometry
 
UHPLC Accela – Exactive™ in the CEFSER Lab for Mass Spectrometry
 
Thermo Fisher Scientific representatives recognized the capacities of the CEFSER team and allowed the final success of the negotiation realizing the mutual benefits of this procurement. In this way, the procurement of two instruments with compatible application ranges and the outstanding features for the confirmatory and screening analysis of contaminants in food and the environmental matrices lifted the CEFSER capabilities to cope with new tasks and challenges in food and environmental safety up to the level of the leading laboratories in the developed EU countries.
 
• Report "The instruments installation"
• Report "The reinforcement of the CEFSER material resources"